Southwark Council plan to take our Recreation Ground to use for burials.
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We, the undersigned:
- demand that Honor Oak Park Recreation Ground should stay as an open public green space
- call on Southwark Council to abandon any plan to use it as burial
- call on local councillors (Southwark and Lewisham) to support residents and park users in protecting our park
To the geni-ass at Southwark who's contemplating turning this local facility into additional burial space: surely digging up fields where children and adults exercise and stay healthy is going to mean you'll just be digging graves quicker?? Idiots.
ReplyDeleteI was visiting a deceased cemetery loved one just today and chanced to peer through the paling dividing said cemetery from that expansive green. There were more seagulls utilising the space than homo sapiens. The number I saw on that Saturday afternoon wouldn't have made up a football team. Though commandeering a few gulls would have done the trick. Lol!
ReplyDeleteThen you should go down there on a Sat/Sunday morning, the expansive green is full of kids playing organised football, and the little playground is great way of getting the little ones out the house. So we know that were running out of burial space, but turning the recreation ground into a cemetery is not a long term solution anyway! I totally agree, what idiot at Southwark council cane up with this idea!! Are we just going to keep turning our green spaces into burial sites? I have a few ideas why not promote the benefits of cremation, have a quicker turnover on the grave, maybe 70-100 years, or start burying people standing up! anything has to be better than this!!
ReplyDeleteI am a Humanist Celebrant who conducts funerals in the Crematorium. I walk through the recreation ground en route and pass the graves.I reckon that our burial system is not sustainable and that we should have multiple burials on the one plot. There is a load of irrational sentimentallity about rotting corpses and bones in coffins - it's probably a religious hangover eg Catholics were anti-cremation except for heretics!
ReplyDeleteIts the living that need space.
Say no to the expansion of the cemetery and all the plastic flowers and rubbish. Re-use the existing ground and turn it into a woodland burial site instead.